Empire State Development Corp. today said a new tenant has moved into the Harriman Business Center, a building at the sprawling state office campus near the University at Albany. Quint Wellington Redwood, a management consulting and training firm, is the tenant, occupying 600 square feet for the three to five employees who will work there. […]
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Here are a few photos taken today at the Honest Weight Food Co-op, which has expanded by 3,000 feet. The co-op is readying, though, for a 2010 move to a newly constructed building on Watervliet Avenue Extension. “It’s a temporary expansion,” said Cindee Lolik, a manager at the Albany store located along Central Avenue. “But […]
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Longtime Saratoga Springs resident Mark Straus, the founder and former owner of the now-defunct furniture store Mabou, has put five prominent downtown buildings up for sale — and has already sold a sixth. The up-for-sale buildings house well-known businesses like Max London’s and Wheatfields restaurant. And one of the buildings is the Downtown Marketplace at […]
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The developer of de Laet’s Landing, the massive commercial, residential and retail complex planned for the Rensselaer waterfront, is planning to begin construction on the project’s first building by late spring or early summer – but only if it can secure leasing some of the space before construction begins. U.W. Marx Inc., a Troy-based company, […]
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It has now been almost five months since the deadline for proposals for the redevelopment of the Harriman State Office Campus. You remember the long-delayed plan, right? To turn the rather sterile campus into a hotbed of private development, into a home for high-tech companies, stores and maybe even housing? To generate new property-tax revenue […]
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A secretive New York City-area investor has purchased four buildings on Erie Boulevard in Schenectady. Doing business as 104 – 112 Erie LLC, which just happens to be the address of the properties, the investor paid $2.6 million for the buildings. They are being represented locally by Carrow Real Estate Services of Albany. Charles Carrow, […]
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Dick’s Sporting Goods, which now occupies one floor of the original Filene’s Department Store at Crossgates Mall, would expand into 80,000 square feet on two floors of the former Lord & Taylor department store, according to a Guilderland town official. Crossgates Mall’s owner, Pyramid Cos. of Syracuse, last month acquired the vacant Lord & Taylor […]
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It may be no surprise, given the current health of the real estate market, that the dollar value of contracts for future construction fell by double digits in November. The data, from McGraw-Hill Construction, showed that nonresidential construction contracts fell 57 percent to $21.3 million from $49.2 million in November 2007. Residential construction contracts, meanwhile, were […]
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